Utilitarian Review 2/13/16

On HU

Featured Archive Post: Emily Thomas on new text games.

Chris Gavaler meditates on auteurism in superhero comics.

Review of corporate training goof Welcome to the Jungle.

Review of Jason DaSilva’s doc about his ms, When I Walk.

Review of Gavin McInnes’ crappy How To Be a Man.

Robert Stanley Martin with on sale dates of comics from May/June 1952.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Quartz I wrote about:

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and how making your female characters stronger makes them weaker.

—how Silence of the Lambs is scared of Clarice. (it’s the 25th anniversary today.)

At the Guardian I wrote about:

the Fifth Wave and colonialism against white people.

—Man in the High Castle, 11.22.63, and how we love counterfactual stories.

At Playboy I wrote about how cassette tapes never went away.

At the Establishment I wrote about:

A.O. Scott and art as criticism as art as criticism.

Trump, torture, and reparations.

At Splice today

—I wrote about what would happen if Rubio won NH. which didn’t happen, as it turns out.

—I asked Bernie Sanders, fool or liar?
 
Other Links

Parker Molloy on problems with Kenneth Zucker’s therapies for trans youth.

Juiia Serano on the same.
 

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